Born Oct. 26, 1961, in Waterbury, Conn., Dylan McDermott had a difficult early life. With his parents split and his mother dead by the time he was 5, McDermott was on his way to becoming a delinquent when he discovered acting as a teen. With encouragement from his stepmother, playwright Eve Ensler, McDermott studied acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and soon began landing roles on the New York stage.In 1985, McDermott appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues," and two years later, he made his film debut in Hamburger Hill. Film roles continued to come his way -- including that of Julia Roberts's estranged husband in Steel Magnolias (1989) and in Clint Eastwood's In the Line of Fire (1993) -- but true stardom eluded him until he was cast in TV's legal drama "The Practice."
More recently, McDermott has appeared in the film Wonderland (2003) and the TV miniseries The Grid.
The MessengersRoy and Denise buy a run-down sunflower farm with their daughter, Jess, planning to renovate it and live a simple country life. But as the dilapidated farm begins to revive, Denise and Jess start noticing alarming changes in Roy's behavior. Read More
HardwareIn a post-apocalypse wasteland, desert scavenger Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) buys a robotic head as a gift for his artist girlfriend (Stacey Travis), who uses it in one of her sculptures unaware that the dismantled android is capable of reconstructing itself. After doing just that, the... Read More
The TenantsWorking on a novel he's been writing for nearly a decade, Henry Lesser (Dylan McDermott) is happy to be the only resident in a run-down Brooklyn tenement. But when Willie Spearmint (Snoop Dogg) -- a militant black writer with a beautiful white girlfriend (Rose Byrne) -- moves into another part of... Read More
Jersey GirlToby (Jami Gertz) is a Jersey girl who can't seem to find love in her own neighborhood, so she sets her sights on the men across the Hudson River in New York City in hopes that they'll provide the love, contentment and happiness she so desperately seeks. Could Mr. Right be Sal (Dylan McDermott), the... Read More
The GridAfter an attack on London, a secret task force sets out to stop a terrorist cell in this riveting miniseries. As the mission unfolds, British and American agents grapple with personal and professional crises -- and many lives are about to change. Leading the joint operation are Maren Jackson... Read More
Nobody Walks (2012) | NR | |
American Horror Story (2011) | NR | |
Burning Palms (2010) | R | |
Mercy (2009) | NR | |
Dark Blue (2009) | NR | |
The Messengers (2007) | PG-13 | |
Big Shots: Season 1 (2007) | NR | |
The Tenants (2006) | R | |
Unbeatable Harold (2006) | PG-13 | |
Edison Force (2005) | R | |
The Mistress of Spices (2005) | PG-13 | |
The Grid (2004) | NR | |
Party Monster (2003) | UR | |
R | ||
Texas Rangers (2001) | PG-13 | |
Three to Tango (1999) | PG-13 | |
The Practice (1997) | TV-14 | |
'Til There Was You (1997) | PG-13 | |
Home for the Holidays (1995) | PG-13 | |
The Cowboy Way (1994) | PG-13 | |
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) | PG | |
In the Line of Fire (1993) | R | |
Jersey Girl (1992) | PG-13 | |
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992) | R | |
Hardware (1990) | R | |
Twister (1989) | PG-13 | |
Steel Magnolias (1989) | PG | |
The Blue Iguana (1988) | R | |
Hamburger Hill (1987) | R | |
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